This is the journal of a passage around the world, made possible by The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (www.wcmt.org.uk) who have awarded me a Travelling Fellowship.

My award is under the Photography and Documentary Film-Making category of 2005. My project is entitled 'Recording Change Through Re-Take Photography' and the Fellowship is allowing me to travel and meet with scientists and photographers around the world, who are using re-take or repeat photography as a means of recording change.

Anne is here with me, sharing the experiences and doing a little bit of her own exploration. We'll both be contributing diaries and thoughts to this along the way.

Monday 5th December, 2005
After the time change of eight hours from Hong Kong time, we arrived in London at 4.35. The new Wallace and Gromit movie was on the in flight (Curse of the Were Rabbit) and I watched it several times … none of them all the way through, but I think I’d covered most of it by the time the twelve hours flight time had passed.
We landed at Heathrow at 4.35, cleared immigrati...

Sunday 4th December, 2005
A lazy morning. Our check out time was midday and we just stayed around the room, catching up on packing and diaries until it was time to vacate the room.
We piled our bags into the concierge’s lock-up and walked to and around The Ladies Market, just a few streets from the hotel.
If its possible, there were even more Chinese people on the street today. It was like a ...

Saturday, 3rd December, 2005
Today, we’re on our own and Anne has big plans for the markets.
The day started early with e-mail rendezvous with both boys – about 6am our time and 10pm the night before, for them back home. We wandered down to breakfast at about 9. Not nearly the same number of people, quite probably because we’re later, but also perhaps because it’s a Saturday.
We then walked ...